R&D Project Coordinator

The Pickering Group is a family-owned, UK-based electronics manufacturer established in 1968, specializing in high-quality switching, simulation, and relay products for industries like aerospace, automotive, and defense.

The R&D Project Coordinator plays a vital supporting role in the Project Management Department, within the wider R&D organisation, assisting with various tasks and contributing to the overall efficiency of all R&D Projects. The Project Coordinator plays a leading role in the planning and delivery of multi-disciplinary projects across R&D. Responsible for coordinating timelines, actions, project meetings and documentation, communicating risks and progress to R&D Leadership, ensuring everyone has clarity on project timelines and ownership.
A good Project Coordinator is organised, engaging, enthusiastic about their work and genuinely wants to help remove project roadblocks where they can so the R&D team can deliver to the best of their abilities.

Key Responsibilities:

• Project Plan Management: Create and maintain detailed project plans, timelines and milestones for each given project, ensuring data is never more than a week out of date.
• Project Reporting & Communication: Creation of project reports for R&D Leadership, identifying potential risks, dependencies and delays to the project delivery, escalating where necessary.
• Project Lifecycle: Ensure agreed project methods, processes & standards are adhered to throughout the entire project lifecycle.
• Project Documentation: Working with the project team, ensuring all Project Documentation and reviews are complete and up to date.
• Project Meetings: Responsible for organising and leading project meetings, distributing agendas taking notes, identify ownership and tracking actions.
• Project Administration: Responsible for setting up R&D projects as they are assigned, adding to the relevant R&D systems as required.

Required Qualifications:

• Education:
  • Minimum 4 GCSE’s including Maths and English, level 4 or above, or equivalent.
• Experience:
  • Working within the Microsoft 365 environment, i.e. Word, Excel and Outlook.
  • Working within a project based environment is advantageous.
  • Working within a high paced Engineering environment is advantageous.
  • Working with Smartsheet and Teamwork is advantageous.
• Skills/Competencies:
  • Good judgement, self-motivation, multitasking and excellent organisational skills.
  • Show perseverance whilst understanding others viewpoints and priorities is essential.
  • The ability to work unsupervised, and as part of a team and proactively seek out work and help others.
  • Set expectations and deliver on them.
  • High degree of computer literacy.

Preferred Qualifications:

• N/A

Key Skills

• Able to establish and prioritise workload, and meet deadlines whilst preserving a high level of accuracy.
• Strong interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills and the ability to relate to a wide variety of people.

WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT FROM PICKERING

People are at the heart of Pickering. We believe that each employee contributes directly to Pickering’s growth and success, in return we offer:

• A competitive salary
• 25 days annual leave, plus bank holidays
• Buying and selling holiday. Employees can buy up to 10 days if eligible.
• Life Insurance x4 annual salary, capped at £50k
• Corporate membership at the local gym and spa
• A thorough induction program, including a Pickering Pal being assigned to you to ensure you feel welcome and to check in on you during your probation
• Regular reviews and performance related pay increases (subject to business conditions)
• Employee wellbeing and mental health support through our partnership with Mind
• EAP with Sparks (Legal & General health and wellbeing digital home)
• Wellbeing Program with Spa Medical
• Choice of salary sacrifice on Pension contributions
• Paid company social events such as a summer festival and Christmas party
• Career progression
• Training programmes
• Sponsoring further education
• Salary sacrifice car scheme
• Potential for Worldwide Business Travel (role dependant)
• Free tea, coffee, and fresh fruit